Difference between revisions of "How to add stuff to a wiki"

Revision as of 09:15, 5 November 2018

• add new pages by
  • typing a title inside double square brackets (e.g. [[my title]]) when you edit a page. This makes a link to it: ooh look, a page to edit, which you can click on and edit
  • search for a title, and if it's not there, click create the page ..
  • you can set up a "create new page" page, stick it in tools etc
• format the text, organise subsections, make lists and lots of other things - see wiki formatting guide
• put pages in categories by typing [[Category:some category]] somewhere in them. These are then listed in special index pages, accessed on the left or listed in your wikipages.
• add links to pages already in the wiki by typing the title inside double square brackets - e.g. Why I think a wiki would be good for the school
• add external links by putting a url, then a space, then a title in single square brackets - e.g. What on earth is {!ctf}?
• upload files like images and videos (under Tools on the left) onto the wiki, and put them in pages by typing [[File:filename.extension|options|caption]]

Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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see Help with Images for all the stuff you can do with them.

• embed external images in pages using a url or an html <img src=url> tag

• use extensions to embed video and sound. For example, use <html5media height="720" width="1280">File:Example.mp4</html5media> -

I love text-to-speech programs:

This is what {!ctf} is trying to do:

• there are lots of useful extensions people have written and are pretty easy to get working - see e.g. Making it more useful
• consult the User's Guide for more information